Sally Magnusson > Quotes

“A nation discovers its truest dignity when it cherishes the dignity of those from whom it has not heard for a very long time.”
― Sally Magnusson, Where Memories Go

“Do not treat worst the one you love best.”
― Sally Magnusson, The Sealwoman's Gift

“It was the kind of morning on the threshold of dawn when you sense everything holding its breath, the ground soft and expectant, the air eager for the sun, the stillness pregnant with vitality but not quite there yet. Any day now the trees would explode and flowers shoot from the earth and toads make their bid for freedom and scents assail you and the rowdy geese rooster home. But for the moment the land was waiting.”
― Sally Magnusson, Music in the Dark

“circular”
― Sally Magnusson, The Ninth Child

“To put the question another way, is the brain all there is to us, a fantastically clever machine that creates a mind, which in turn creates an illusory sense of an independent self, which then collapses when
the brain itself starts to die? Or is there such a thing as a separate selfhood, a secret core of self which I imagine as a glossy pearl,
existing separately and staying safe from the most violent assaults on the body and of the body?”
― Sally Magnusson, Where Memories Go

“but in the really dark dark you could feel the presence of something old on All Hallow's Eve; boundaries about to breach, the skin of reality stretched so thin you might go seeing through it any minute, to your benefit or to your harm.”
― Sally Magnusson, Music in the Dark

“Do not treat worst the one you love best. I hear you, Oddrún. But that still leaves a question the saga does not ask. It may be that the sealwoman had it in mind that an answer should be sought to this, too. Is it by the wanting that we measure love, or by something else?”
― Sally Magnusson, The Sealwoman's Gift